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Showing posts with label Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Show all posts
Thursday, November 17, 2022

Book Review: The History of Norfolk Naval Shipyard

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By James H. Shoemaker Reviewed by Lee Duckworth HRNM docent The History of Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) is based largely on the unpublishe...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

USS Santee: The Fleet Oiler that Became an Aircraft Carrier

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By CAPT Alexander Monroe, USN (Ret.) HRNM Volunteer In early May 1960, USS Santee (CVEH 29) ended a trans-Atlantic tow by the German s...
Thursday, May 19, 2022

HMS Queen Elizabeth Repairs During World War II

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By Thomas Grubbs HRNM Volunteer For many years now, Great Britain has been one of the United States’ closest allies. This special relations...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

LST 333's Rendezvous with War: Loss of a Norfolk Ship

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By CAPT Alexander Monroe, USN (Ret.) HRNM Docent and Contributing Writer On October 15, 1942, at 7:30 AM, Mrs. Cornelius Kneeburg, wife of t...
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Thursday, January 7, 2021

USS Langley (CV 1): The Beginning (Part One)

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USS Langley (CV 1) with battleships of the fleet in the 1920s. ( Naval History and Heritage Command ) By Thomas Grubbs Contributing Writer ...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

November 14-15, 1942: Night of the Battleships

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The U.S. battleship USS Washington (BB 56) firing upon the Japanese battleship Kirishima , during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on t...
Friday, November 8, 2019

Seventy-Five Years Ago: Gone in a Flash

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By M.C. Farrington HRNM Historian An old naval aphorism goes, "Why die? Go supply!" But warfighting is a dangerous business f...